Orange cake

Ingredients:-

• 1 ¼ cup of flour
• 3 eggs
• ¾ cup of orange juice (fresh / bottled)
• ½ cup of vegetable oil
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1tsp of baking powder
• ½ tsp of vanilla essence
• 1tsp of fresh orange zest

First grease the baking pan by applying oil & flour. Keep aside.

Preheat oven to 180 degree C for 30 min. .

It is always better to separate the yolks from white portion & whip the white part with ¾ cup of sugar to make it stiffen. It makes the cake light & spongy. Egg white & yolk separates very easily when it is cold.

Sieve flour & baking powder in a separate bowl & mix nicely.

Then one by one ingredient (rest of sugar, oil, orange juice & zest, egg yolks, vanilla essence pour to flour & mix gently.

Now is the time to fold the batter & stiffen egg white together. If desire then in this stage nuts & raisins can be added. But remember nuts & raisins to be coated by little flour. Otherwise all will set at the bottom of the cake.

Pour the mixture into the baking pan.

Bake it in 180 degree C for 20 -30 minutes on the middle rack of oven.